History PlayingWith / InspirationallyDisadvantaged

** Being inspirational and gains tons of compliment from his disability makes Bob becomes a {{Spoiled|Brat}} BitchInSheepsClothing, so he can use his DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery and get away with it by [[WoundedGazelleGambit pretend that he is a victim of ableist assholes.]]

* '''Implied''': Bob has an AmbiguousDisorder and people are a lot more friendly to him than other people.

** Bob is actually a BitchInSheepsClothing, so he can use his DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery and get away with it by [[WoundedGazelleGambit pretend that he is a victim of ableist assholes.]]

* '''Exploited''': Alice claims how Bob (who has no disability) is an inspiration to all as a form of StealthInsult.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Discussed''': "Everybody acts like it's a big deal every time Alice breathes, just because she's in a wheelchair."

** This attitude leads to most able-bodied individuals spending most of their time cooing over how 'inspiring' disabled people are, and doing very little in way of accommodations.
** Alternatively, it creates the toxic belief that disabled people who don't push themselves beyond their limits are automatically helpless and lazy, and that only by pushing themself beyond their normal limits can a disabled person be something of worth to others. [[MortonsFork Disabled people who manage to push themselves beyond their limits are deemed to have 'overcome' their disabilities, and denied accommodations.]]

** Alternatively, it creates the toxic belief that disabled people who don't push themselves beyond their limits are automatically helpless and lazy. Disabled people who manage to push themselves beyond their limits are deemed to have 'overcome' their disabilities, and denied accommodations.

** DreamCrushingHandicap is the RealityEnsues version of this.

** [[BrilliantButLazy Charles]] is actually [[Dismotivation dismotivated]] by Alice and Bob, because "Why even bother doing anything, when even they can do better than that?".

** Alice is actually quite cynical and sharp-tongued, but her friends rely on her insight and honesty no less for that.

** Everybody in Troperville is disabled, so what's the big deal? And/or, the ''non-disabled'' are the ones treated as InspirationallyDisadvantaged.

* '''Defied''': Bob's parents raise him to think that his disability is not inspiring and he is not anymore special than anyone else, [[StopBeingStereotypical because they don't want their son to be a stereotype]].

* '''Defied''': Bob's parents raise him to think that his disability is not inspiring and he is not anymore special than anyone else, because they don't want their son to be a stereotype.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** The daily activities of a disabled person is written up as front-page news ''because'' that person has a disability.

** Alice leads a movement aiming to disabled people.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice moving on her own causes people to come around for miles.
* The daily activities of a disabled person is written up as front-page news ''because'' that person has a disability.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice leads a movement aiming to disabled people.

* '''Parodied''': Alice's wheelchair is the source of everyone's inspiration, not Alice herself. Anyone who sits in the wheelchair will automatically be revealed as a hero.

* '''Averted''': Alice and Bob are both shown as normal characters, not particularly wiser or any more talented than anyone else in the cast, and story arcs that have nothing to do with their disabilities.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice moving on her own causes people to come around for miles.

** Alice or Bob come from [[AbusiveParents families that think disabled kids are useless]], so the fact that they live their lives in a positive manner actually is inspiring to people.

* '''Parodied''': Alice's wheelchair is the source of everyone's inspiration, not Alice herself. Anyone who sits in the wheelchair will automatically be reviled as a hero.

** Alice is an EvilCripple plotting to take over the world and make everyone unable to walk so they'll be just as miserable as she is.

** Bob is a perfectionist, and a member of a local sports league that focuses on the disabled.

* '''Averted''': Alice and Bob are both shown as normal characters, not particularly wiser or any more talented than anyone else in the cast, and story arcs that have nothing to do with their disabilities.
* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Parodied''': ???
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** As with '''Deconstructed,''' Alice and Bob's disabilities aren't vague and formless. Also, they both have a complete visible life ''outside'' of their disability, or else there'll be a very good reason why.

* '''Averted''': ???

** Bob, an average-caliber athlete, enters in an athletics competition, hoping that the fact that he's performing as well as the other athletes, but ''on crutches!'', will give him an edge.

** ... but then, after a tumultuous adolescence, Alice grows naturally into a wise and open-hearted view of the world. She is able to express her true feelings, including anger, fear, and sadness, even to her parents. Since her friends rely on her so much for advice, she decides to become a therapist.

* InspirationallyDisadvantaged '''Played Straight''': Being disabled makes you an inspiration to us all.

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** Daisy, for purposes of her own, tries to emphasize and highlight how cheerful and angelic Alice is, how tragically beautiful, probably for purposes of emotional manipulation on a third party.
** Bob, an average-caliber athlete, enters in an athletics competition, hoping that the fact that he's performing as well as the other athletes, but ''on crutches!'', will give him an edge.

** Alice comes from a family that has a very positive outlook on life, and she is naturally ThePolyanna.

** Bob, an average-caliber athlete, enters in an athletics competition, hoping that the fact that he's performing as well as the other athletes ''on crutches!'' will give him an edge.